Women, Education, and Agency, 1600-2000

ISBN-13: 9780415990059 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 296 str.

Jean Spence;Sarah Aiston;Maureen M Meikle

Opis

In this collection of essays an international roster of contributors comes together to provide historical insight into women’s agency and activism in education throughout the world from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Topics range from the strategies adopted by individual women to achieve a personal education, through the influence of educated women upon their social environment, to the organized efforts of groups of women to pursue broader feminist goals in an educational context.

The collection is designed to recover the variety of the voices of women inhabiting different social worlds. At the same time, it seeks to highlight commonality and continuity with reference to creativity, achievement, transgression and the management of structures of gender inequality.

Recenzje

"The book provides a historical insight into women's agency and activism in education from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The collection is designed to recover the variety in the voices of women inhabiting different geographical and social contexts while highlighting commonality and continuity with reference to creativity, achievementm and the management and transgression of structures of gender inequality"– Shruti Vip, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration.

Spis treści

Foreword. Carol Dyhouse. Preface. 1.Women, Education and Agency, 1600-2000: An Historical Perspective. Sarah Jane Aiston. 2. Self-Tutition and the Intellectual Achievement of Early Modern Women: Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678). Barbara Bulckaert. 3. Women and Agency: The Educational Legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft. Joyce Senders Pedersen. 4. Scientific Women: Their Contribution to Culture in England in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Ruth Watts. 5. Ramabai and Rokeya: The History of Gendered Social Capital in India. Barnita Bagchi. 6. Russian Women in European Universities, 1864-1900. Marianna Muravyeva. 7. ‘Knowledge as the Necessary Food of the Mind’: Charlotte Mason’s Philosophy of Education. Stephanie Spencer. 8. A Woman’s Challenge: The Voice of Sukufe Nihal in the Modernisation of Turkey. Aynur Soydan Erdemir. 9. Femininity and Mathematics at Cambridge circa 1900. Claire Jones. 10. Thinking Women: International Education for Peace and Equality, 1918-1930. Katherine Storr. 11. London’s Feminist Teachers and the Urban Political Landscape. Jane Martin. 12. Feminist Criminology in Britain c.1920-1960: Education, Agency and Activism outside the Academy. Anne Logan. 13. Thinking Feminist in 1963: Challenges from Betty Friedan and the U.S. President’s Commission on the Status of Women. Linda Eisenmann. 14. ‘Enhancing the quality of the educational experience’: Female Activists and U.S. University and College Women’s Centres. Sylvia Ellis and Helen Mitchell. About the Editors. About the Contributors. Index.